Oct. 8 – Chicago Tribune
Professor Steven Schwinn quoted:
The U.S. Supreme Court in 1985 allowed schools to test students for drugs using a lower level of suspicion than required in a criminal search. The court ruled in 1995 that schools may test athletes, and in 2002 expanded that to students in extracurricular activities.
“One thing that I tell my students all the time is just because something is constitutional, it doesn’t make it a good idea,” said Steven Schwinn, associate professor at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. “I do think it’s a mistake of policy and law for the Supreme Court to open up more and more populations in the schools for these randomized searches.”
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